From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Fri Jul 08 2005 - 16:06:56 BST
Arlo,
A few corrections:
> Platt demonstrated a bizarre twist to this when his critical analysis of
> the Supreme Court decision "forced" him to blame liberals for what is, to
> any willful gaze, a symptom of a system that caters to wealth. Since his
> Good/Evil dichotomy leaves no room for any critical examination of
> "republicans", he was left blaming "socialist liberals" for catering to big
> business. Remember that these are the same people he abhors for using
> spotted moth habitats to block development. So entrenched is this
> dichotomy that any real examination of causes, symptoms and abuses by power
> are absolutely shut out.
There is agreement among political commentators that five justices on the
court are liberal and three are conservative with one swing vote,
O'Conner. I was merely reflecting the common view. Further, unless you
have evidence to show that the justices were bribed by "big business" into
voting a certain way, your accusation of "catering to wealth" ought to be
withdrawn.
> Another use of this distortive dichotomy would include Platt's
> comment "Ah, the arrogance of you liberals never ceases to amaze".
> Conservatives, are of course, not arrogant. In all of these cases, the
> underlying dialogue is polarized (willfully so, or inadvertantly) into
> absolutist categories of good and evil.
To say liberals are arrogant does not say conservatives are not. And yes,
I do believe there exists absolute evil, the terrorists who bombed London
being just one example.
And a point of agreement:
> Personally, I'd prefer if people were
> able to look beyond "nation-state" boundaries for the "patriotic" support
> we offer, and looked instead to ideals (so when we say "all men are endowed
> by their creator with certain unalienable rights", we don't really mean
> just "all Americans"), but that appears to be something to heretical to
> advance...
> And yet, that's just what the MOQ allows us to do... isn't it??
That's why I support our policy in Iraq and the war against terrorism
throughout the world.
Platt
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